Management of Multi-State Policy Response Collaboratives

edCount has participated in a number of multi-state projects in which state representatives and experts from relevant fields of research come together to discuss and develop effective policies, systems, and practices in response to federal mandates.

The Alternate Assessment Based on Alternate Achievement Standards (AA-AAS) Validity Evaluation project brought together a consortium of five state-level entities – Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico – to engage in a three-year process to identify and evaluate the validity argument for the interpretation and use of scores from its alternate assessment.

The National Center and State Collaborative (NCSC) was a project led by five organizations and 24 states (18 core partner states and 6 Tier II states) to build an alternate assessment based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS) for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities.